Kyle Wright and Brett Durand Return to Riverhawks Baseball

From Baseball in Illinois News Sources

Rockford’s only professional baseball team announced Wednesday that it has re-signed pitchers Kyle Wright and Brett Durand (above). Each won 10 games last season, the first time in team history that the RiverHawks have had two pitchers crack double digits. The pair accounted for nearly half the team’s victories last season.

Wright, a Frontier League all-star, was 10-6 with a 2.24 earned-run average. Wright became the first RiverHawk in six years to win the league’s ERA crown. Wright struck out 129, second in the league, and walked 41 in a league-high 144 2/3 innings. Wright pitched a league-leading seven complete games – a team record – and tossed two shutouts, tied for the league high.


Durand was 10-6 with a 3.81 ERA. He struck out 110 and walked 23 over 130 innings. In his last five appearances, Durand won three of four starts and picked up a five-out save in a rare relief appearance.

Each finished the year a victory short of Tanner Watson’s three-year-old RiverHawks wins record.